Ste
Executive member
As you may have read on the news page of the site we have launched at Planetcricket Chatroom. The chatroom is open 24 hours a day and is frequently used by staff members, forum admins and Cricket 2004 patch makers.
The chatroom can be accessed directly from the site using a Java Chat applet by clicking on "Planetcricket Chatroom" at the top of the main forum index page as shown below:
or by clicking on "Chatroom" of the menu on the main site. Another way to access it is using this URL - http://www.planetcricket.org/chat.htm
When the page loads you will be shown a security window asking if you want the chat software to run, you need to press yes on this to use the chatroom.
You will then see a chat box which you can enter a nickname into before pressing "Connect Now". You do not need to enter a real name or change any of the other settings:
You will then need to wait while you are connected to the server and the planetcricket channel. When connected the chatroom will look like this:
You can type messages into the box at the bottom of the chatroom and press return to send them to the chatroom. The colour and bold options allow the style of your messages to be changed. To leave the chatroom just click Disconnect or close your browser window.
To use the chatroom using this Java chatroom you need to have the Java Virtual Machine installed on your computer. http://java-virtual-machine.net/download.html has more information on where you can download this from.
Alteratively you can use an IRC client like MIRC to connect to the chatroom. To do this choose to connect to the BeyondIRC server, enter a nickname and click "Connect to IRC server".
When you are connected to the server click on the channels button on the toolbar as shown below:
Enter "planetcricket" (without the quotation marks) as the channel name to join and click Join to start chatting:
If you have any problems or questions about the new chatroom please post them on this topic.
Thanks
Ste
The chatroom can be accessed directly from the site using a Java Chat applet by clicking on "Planetcricket Chatroom" at the top of the main forum index page as shown below:
or by clicking on "Chatroom" of the menu on the main site. Another way to access it is using this URL - http://www.planetcricket.org/chat.htm
When the page loads you will be shown a security window asking if you want the chat software to run, you need to press yes on this to use the chatroom.
You will then see a chat box which you can enter a nickname into before pressing "Connect Now". You do not need to enter a real name or change any of the other settings:
You will then need to wait while you are connected to the server and the planetcricket channel. When connected the chatroom will look like this:
You can type messages into the box at the bottom of the chatroom and press return to send them to the chatroom. The colour and bold options allow the style of your messages to be changed. To leave the chatroom just click Disconnect or close your browser window.
To use the chatroom using this Java chatroom you need to have the Java Virtual Machine installed on your computer. http://java-virtual-machine.net/download.html has more information on where you can download this from.
Alteratively you can use an IRC client like MIRC to connect to the chatroom. To do this choose to connect to the BeyondIRC server, enter a nickname and click "Connect to IRC server".
When you are connected to the server click on the channels button on the toolbar as shown below:
Enter "planetcricket" (without the quotation marks) as the channel name to join and click Join to start chatting:
If you have any problems or questions about the new chatroom please post them on this topic.
Thanks
Ste
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